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1 | Was Calvin just a slick lawyer? | Matt 27:3 | EdB | 74548 | ||
Joe Perhaps you would be so kind to supply information to where Calvin studied Hebrew and Greek. Where he study theology and under what teaching was he trained in exegesis. Luther was a peasant, a monk, and a university professor; Calvin, a scholar and LAWYER called to a turbulent public ministry in a nourishing business community. Shelley, B. L. (1995). Church history in plain language (Updated 2nd ed.). Dallas, Tex.: Word Pub. Emphasis mine. Calvin’s organizing and executive abilities enabled him to build on the work of Zwingli. Shelley, B. L. (1995). Church history in plain language (Updated 2nd ed.). Dallas, Tex.: Word Pub. Calvin entered the University of Paris at fourteen and mastered not only a brilliant writing style but a skill in logical argument. Shelley, B. L. (1995). Church history in plain language (Updated 2nd ed.). Dallas, Tex.: Word Pub. After Paris, at his father’s insistence, John turned to the study of law in the universities of Orleans and Bourges, but his father’s death in 1531 left Calvin free to pursue his own interests. Thus he returned to Paris as a student of the classics, intent upon a scholar’s career. Shelley, B. L. (1995). Church history in plain language (Updated 2nd ed.). Dallas, Tex.: Word Pub. In the autumn of 1533 Calvin was so closely linked with his friend Nicholas Cop that when Cop gave a strongly Protestant address as rector of the university, some suspected Calvin wrote the speech. Shelley, B. L. (1995). Church history in plain language (Updated 2nd ed.). Dallas, Tex.: Word Pub. As a preface to the Institutes, Calvin addressed a remarkable letter to Francis I, King of France, defending the Protestants in that land from the criticisms of their enemies, and vindicating their rights to a respectful hearing. No one had spoken so effectively in their behalf, and with this letter Calvin assumed a position of leadership in the Protestant cause Shelley, B. L. (1995). Church history in plain language (Updated 2nd ed.). Dallas, Tex.: Word Pub. EdB |
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2 | Was Calvin just a slick lawyer? | Matt 27:3 | BradK | 74561 | ||
Forum: I offer this soley as a source, not in any way to add fuel to the fire:-) Pertinent to this discussion is what Phillip Schaff writes of Calvin and his education: "Calvin received the best education—in the humanities, law, philosophy, and theology—which France at that time could give. He studied successively in the three leading universities of Orleans, Bourges, and Paris, from 1528 to 1533, first for the priesthood, then, at the wish of his father, for the legal profession, which promised a more prosperous career." "His principal teacher in Greek and Hebrew was Melchior Volmar (Wolmar), a German humanist of Rottweil, a pupil of Lefèvre, and successively professor in the universities of Orleans and Bourges, and, at last, at Tuebingen, where he died in 1561. He openly sympathized with the Lutheran Reformation, and may have exerted some influence upon his pupil in this direction, but we have no authentic information about it. Calvin was very intimate with him, and could hardly avoid discussing with him the religious question which was then shaking all Europe. In grateful remembrance of his services he dedicated to him his Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians." Schaff, Philip, History of the Christian Church, (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.) 1997. Speaking The Truth In Love, BradK |
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3 | Was Calvin just a slick lawyer? | Matt 27:3 | EdB | 74563 | ||
Bradk Remember Schaff is a Calvinist and he is right Calvin did attend schools in Paris in what most would consider a liberal arts education. If you read any liberal arts curriculum today you will see much the same wording to describe what will be taught. His education certainly was not theological but more humanistic. After leaving Paris Calvin attended law school in Orleans and Bourges when his father died he returned to Paris intent on following a scholastic career when he was SAVED. To suggest he was preparing for priesthood or studying theology prior to this would be to say he was doing it as an unregenerate that by his own words would have nothing to do with God. What Schaff calls a study in language was more a tutoring by these professors later in life after he had written his Institutes and he was in the process of correcting and refining that document which was a life long experience. To suggest Calvin studied these languages as a Biblical scholar when he attended Orleans and Bourges would be to say he was doing so before his salvation and not very likely. EdB |
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